Jason Hatley – Pastor of Worship Arts at The Journey and Founder of Worship Leader Insights - just released a brand new podcast for worship leaders and I think you (and your worship leader) should check it out!

New Podcast from Jason Hatley:
A Worship Team Check-Up for Team Health and Growth in 2011

In this brand new free worship leader training podcast, Jason will walk you through a 7-point check-up of your worship team and give you 3 action steps to lead a healthy and growing worship team this year.

Don’t miss this opportunity to gauge where your team is right now and chart a course for improvement in the coming months!

Listen (or Download) Here!

Jason Hatley is Pastor of Worship Arts at The Journey and the founder of WorshipLeaderInsights.com. He just released a killer podcast that will help you make your Christmas services more meaningful and memorable than ever.

	New Podcast from Jason Hatley: Three Principles for Creating Powerful Christmas Services
For worship leaders, Christmas services can be the most memorable and life-transforming worship services you do all year. But not if it’s put together last minute, without a spark of creativity to capture the wonder of Christmas. In this brand new free worship leader training podcast, you will discover Three Principles for making your Christmas worship services powerful and engaging.

Click below to Listen Now:
http://www.worshipleaderinsights.com/insights

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2010 - 80% FULL!
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2010 - 65% FULL!
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2010 - 60% FULL!
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Hi, it’s Jason Hatley here – Pastor of Worship Arts at The Journey Church and Founder of Worship Leader Insights.

I recently read that more new information has been produced in the last 30 years than in the last 5,000 years. A weekday edition of the newspaper contains more information than the average person living in the days of Isaac Watts (one of the most prolific hymn writers of the 17th Century) encountered in a lifetime!

In fact, the amount of new information has doubled in the last five years, and it keeps doubling!

You and I are church leaders in the single greatest information and learning age in the history of the church. It is imperative that your worship leader is learning and growing for their own sanity as well as the health of your church.

With the pressure of the weekly service, volunteers, planning, and more, it can be hard for your worship leader to invest in his/her personal growth.

That’s why so many worship leaders reach the end of a year of ministry, look back and realize they are more or less the same person with the same challenges going through the same motions as they were a year ago.

The team is the same size. The quality of the worship service is the same. The weekly frustrations are the same. Sound familiar?

Honestly, that’s a terrible place to be in ministry. God knows that your worship service and worship team’s ability to grow is directly proportionate to your worship leader’s ability to grow.

So here is my question: Does your worship leader have a plan to overcome the challenges that they are facing and grow over the next 12 months?

I want to help your worship leader do just that through my brand new Worship Leader Tele-Coaching Network, but here’s the deal:

* The network begins this Friday, October 15

* I only have a couple spots left

So you have to hurry!

This network is for those worship leaders with a desire to see their worship ministry grow and to invest the time and energy to cooperate with God in seeing it happen.

Furthermore, I can guarantee that if your worship leader applies and is accepted, this network will be more than worth your time and investment (in fact, I’m offering a complete money back guarantee – something I’ve never done for any regular coaching network).

I’m not sure what your worship leaders personal growth plan looks like for the next 12 months, but this I know: There is not another leadership growth experience like this anywhere for Worship Leaders.

Just go to www.WorshipLeaderInsights.com/Coaching to apply online.

Since the network begins this Friday, I must have the application no later than 8:30am on Wednesday morning in order to consider them for the network.

Don’t let your worship leader next year of ministry be wasted by having no plan for personal growth!

Jason Hatley here – Pastor of Worship Arts at The Journey and Founder of Worship Leader Insights.

I heard an amazing story this week and Nelson said that I just had to share it with you.  Here goes…

I was talking with Ryan Barbato from Sanford, NC this week about something incredible happening on his worship team.  Ryan is going to be in my upcoming Tele-Coaching network that starts next Friday, October 15.

Ryan was at a free training event I did this summer in Charlotte, NC about how to build a healthy, growing worship team.  Ryan picked up my resource “How to Double Your Worship Team in a Day” while he was there.

When I met Ryan in Charlotte he had 22 people on his worship team.  He took the “How to Double Your Worship Team in a Day” resource and ran the system just like I taught.

Ryan emailed me last week and said that he already has 40 new people signed up for his big day of auditions next week. That’s 40 people who were sitting on the sidelines until Ryan gave them the opportunity to get involved with his worship team.

His auditions are next Sunday and if all goes well, he could nearly TRIPLE his worship team in one day!

Ryan’s church didn’t have the funds for him to join the Worship Leader Tele-Coaching Network at first, but after his pastor saw what happened with the auditions, they decided to find a way to join the network.

Ryan’s story is a great example of how some personal motivation and solid training can transform your ministry.

You can be a part of this ministry-transforming process too…

Apply for the Worship Leader Tele-Coaching Network.

Hurry – it starts next week and there are only a few spots left!

It’s Jason Hatley here again – Pastor of Worship Arts at The Journey and Founder of www.WorshipLeaderInsights.com - and today I’m concluding a series of posts about how you can help your Worship Leader succeed.

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series we discussed how to set clear expectations and provide constant feedback for to your worship leader.

Why?  Because you want your worship leader to succeed and as the Pastor you can help!

Here’s #3 and it’s vital . . .

#3 – Continuous training

“Effective leaders are life-long learners.”

No doubt you agree with that statement.  After all you are taking part in a learning opportunity by reading this blog.

Learning is an activity, not a hobby.  It is something that we must actively pursue.  Yet so many worship leaders find themselves consumed by the week-to-week mentality and never free themselves to become anything more than they already are.

They reach the end of a year of ministry, look back and realize they are more or less the same person with the same challenges going through the same motions as they were a year ago.

The team is the same size.  The quality of the worship service is the same.  The weekly frustrations are the same.

That’s a terrible place to be in ministry.  After all, God didn’t call me to be the Pastor of Worship Arts @ The Journey so that I could keep it the same or run it into the ground.  He knows that the team’s ability to grow is directly proportionate to my ability to grow.

As a pastor, you can help your worship leader grow by providing continuous training.  Here are three ways:

1) Create a learning culture.

Read books together as a staff. By reading and learning together, you will be able to double your efforts in overcoming challenges.

2) Find monthly training opportunities. Have your worship leader look for monthly training opportunities.  A seminar, webinar, free podcasts.  It’s out there, it’s easy, and cheap!  (Go to http://www.worshipleaderinsights.com for more).

3) Find a Coach.  The best lessons that I have learned in life, I have learned from someone who has been through what I’m facing, and succeeded through it!

A coach comes alongside you, is committed to your success, provides instruction, and offers a better way to accomplish a difficult task.

I wish I had more coaches when we started at The Journey.  Almost everything I learned in the early days I learned the hard way!

But I learned to capture what worked and build systems around it so that I wouldn’t fail at it again.

That’s how our team grew from 2 to 200 people.  How I developed my personal leadership abilities.  How our worship services are planned months in advance.  How we’ve built a healthy and thriving team.  We’ve done it, but it was much harder than it had to be – if I had only had a coach!

Now, I’m a coach.  I give those systems back to other worship leaders through the Tele-Coaching Network.  In these networks, the average worship team doubles.

The worship leader develops a one-year personal growth plan and doubles his effectiveness.  The pastor emails me and says what a difference the network is making in their worship leader.

The Worship Leader Tele-Coaching Network is a way for you to invest in your worship leader’s growth through a 12-month training experience. Over 125 worship leaders have already experienced the benefits of these systems, and your worship leader can to.

My last network for this year begins on October 15 and is already 65% full.  Learn more and apply online at http://www.worshipleaderinsights.com/coaching.

We’re in the middle of a great series of posts from Jason Hatley – Pastor of Worship Arts at The Journey and Founder of Worship Leader Insights - about how Pastors can help their Worship Leaders to be successful (click here and here for those posts), and I wanted to take an opportunity today to share his latest podcast – enjoy!

New Podcast from Jason Hatley:
LEADING YOUR WORSHIP TEAM THROUGH CHANGE

“BEWARE! Leading your worship team through change can be
hazardous to your health!”

That’s the warning label they should put on new initiatives in ministry. After all, one of the most difficult challenges any worship leader faces is how to lead your team through change.

In Part 1 of this 3-part “rubber meets the road” podcast, Jason Hatley will teach you how to identify the Top 3 reasons for a change, and a proven process for how to identify the source of change.

This 3-part podcast gives you a sneak peek into Jason’s Worship Pastor Tele-Coaching networks. It was inspired by a recent Coaching session and will continue through October.

Listen (or Download) Here!

Jason Hatley here again – Pastor of Worship Arts at The Journey and Founder of www.WorshipLeaderInsights.com - continuing a series of posts on how you can help your Worship Leader succeed.

In last week’s post we started with this important thought:

“As goes your worship team, so goes your worship service.”

Effective worship services and worship teams are lead by effective Worship Leaders.  As the pastor you have the power to help your worship leader succeed through,

#1 – Clear Expectations

#2 – Constant Feedback

I’m not talking about the constant feedback that may be happening in your sound system on Sunday . . . I’m talking about the constant feedback that you need to be giving to your worship leader.

Ken Blanchard says that, “Feedback is the breakfast of champions.”

Yet too many times pastors don’t give feedback to the worship leader.

You don’t want to hurt their feelings, you don’t want to be the bad guy, you don’t have the stomach for it.  Who knows, but when we refuse to give feedback here’s what we’re saying:

“I don’t care if you succeed or fail.”

Feedback can be a “praising” or a “prodding”.  Either way, it’s necessary for your worship leader to succeed.

Here are three quick ways to give feedback to your worship leader:

1)     Honestly – Your worship leader needs to hear the crystal clear truth.  If you withhold it, nothing will improve, and good deeds will go unrewarded.

Receiving feedback is all about the heart of the person giving it.  If you have a heart to help your worship leader succeed, he will receive it and go to work on it.

2)     Immediately – for feedback to be beneficial it has to happen immediately.

If you are giving a “praising”, do it at the moment that you caught your worship leader doing something right.  Remember; reward what you want to see repeated.

If you are giving a “prodding” do it as close to the moment as possible.  If you wait, it will make a small change into a big deal.  Do it now while it’s fresh on your mind.  End it with a quick word of encouragement.  Makes the medicine go down better.

3)     Choose the right environment – Don’t give difficult feedback to your worship leader in front of the worship team.  Find a private place to talk.  Likewise, if you are praising your worship leader, find out the way he or she likes to be thanked (not everyone likes a public pat on the back).

Choosing the right environment will deepen the impact of the feedback.

By the way, create a culture on your team where your worship leader can give you feedback as well.  You will find that opens the lines of communication and strengthens your relationship.

PS – If you like what you’ve read, then you will love putting your worship leader through my upcoming Tele-Coaching Network.

Google can tell you a million ways to plan a worship set, but the Tele-Coaching network is the only one of it’s kind that focuses on the leadership and ministry development of your Worship Leader.

My next network begins on October 15 and is already over 65% full.  Apply at http://www.worshipleaderinsights.com/coaching.

PPS: Each month, I send out a Free Newsletter for Worship Leaders.  It’s a monthly email publication that focuses on leadership, worship planning, effective worship team development and much more!

To sign up your worship leader today, visit:

http://www.worshipleaderinsights.com/newsletter

“I want my worship leader to succeed!”

This is Jason Hatley, Pastor of Worship Arts at The Journey and and Founder of www.WorshipLeaderInsights.com, and I can’t name a single pastor that I’ve met anywhere that would disagree with that statement.

After all, as goes your worship team, so goes your worship service.

Having personally coached over 125 worship leaders, I can tell you for sure: the pastor plays a vital role in the success of the worship leader.

If you want your worship leader to succeed (and I know you do), there are some things that you can do as the Pastor to help him or her do just that.

That’s what we’re going to spend the next 3 blog posts talking about.  Here’s the first one:

#1 – Clear Expectations

Many worship leaders fall short because they simply do not know exactly what is expected of them.  They keep busy, but they may not know:

• What is the deadline for the worship order to be done?
• Does my pastor want the service to go this way or that way?
• Is it my responsibility to ________________?

It’s frustrating for you both!

When I hire someone on my team I give that new hire a list of 30+ expectations with weekly deadlines and action steps.

I want them to know exactly what I am hiring them to DO.

Here are three quick tips for writing and communicating your expectations:

1)     Be specific.  The clearer you are on the front end, the less likely there will be disagreements or missteps on the back end.  Don’t say, “The worship order needs to be written.”  Say, “I expect YOU to write the worship order.”

2)     Make it measurable.  Don’t just say, “I expect you to write the worship order.”  Say, “I expect you to bring the worship orders for the next two weeks to our Monday meeting.”

Those are very different statements.  It’s hard to measure the first, but on Monday at that meeting you and your worship leader know if the task has been accomplished.

3)     Give a deadline.  Anything that you can put a deadline on… do it!  Deadlines help your worship leader understand how to prioritize their work.

“I expect you to bring the worship orders for the next two weeks to our Monday meeting, to finalize this Sunday’s worship order by Wednesday at 5pm and to have copies printed and ready for the entire team before Thursday midnight.”

Now I know exactly what to do!

Have you given your worship leader a set of written expectations for the job?  Make a list of 20 expectations that you have for your worship leader.

Remember, if it’s foggy in your mind, it’s a blizzard in your worship leader’s mind.

Get clear on expectations.

PS: I have a talk just like this for Worship Leaders as well.  It’s much more in-depth on how they can help you succeed and it’s only available to those in my Tele-Coaching Network.

Not only that, but in the network I will spend one full year training your worship leader on how to double their personal effectiveness, give you what you need to succeed, plan worship services weeks, months, even a year in advance, double your worship team in a single day, and much more.

My next network begins on October 15 and is already 65% full.  Apply at http://www.worshipleaderinsights.com/coaching.

PPS: Each month, I send out a Free Newsletter for Worship Leaders.  It’s a monthly email publication that focuses on leadership, worship planning, effective worship team development and much more!

To sign up your worship leader today, visit:

http://www.worshipleaderinsights.com/newsletter